Maybe I can give you a direction. I had the same problem, same freezing/sound but no moving crash. It wasn't as frequent as yours, but it wasn't going away. When I finally decided to sort it out, my event logs all contained a reference to "nvlddmkm". When I went to update my video drivers, I was tol...

Oddly enough, mine just started this exact behavior yesterday. I've never seen it before, and have no clue what might be the cause of it. I always make sure nothing is running in the background, updated my drivers, defragged, ran ccleaner(garbage control) and a complete virus/malware scan of my enti...

Nope, still missing that one. That, and the gravidar (which you already mentioned was a known problem).

Update: After some housecleaning my icons returned. Local problem after all.

There's a small error in the gui_master alpha channel.

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It's a relatively simple matter of changing the color layer in the gui_master.dds. Sorry, I don't understand that. 12.cat and 12.dat are the only files in the mod folder, do I need a program to explore the files , like an extractor or unpacker. Can you give me some more info. I have no experience w...

I wouldn't worry too much about this particular problem unless other people report something similar.

It may well be the current state of my files at the moment (which is a bit of a mess with testing this and that).

It's a relatively simple matter of changing the color layer in the gui_master.dds.

Only you can tell which colors will suit you though, so that may be a bit of a problem for someone else.

Don't suppose it could be because the mousepointer_diff.dds isn't in the zip?

Ok, I get my cursor back if I start a new game. Gravidar is still missing though,

No cursor, no mistake. Trying to select weapons using the cursor (while flying) shows nothing at all, dark or otherwise. Correction - there's a very tiny speck (about 4 pixels - green) situated somewhere near the bottom of where the cursor usually is. I can barely see it on-screen, you wouldn't be a...

Nice.

Although... no cursor (In-game only. Game selection screen cursor works fine), no M7 icons in the sector map, and no gravidar.

XTM and cockpit callback installed.

Less activity? Hmm... I run into masses of pirates, Khaak and Xenon frequently. Sometimes as many as 3 dozen or more in a given sector (not even home sectors for the Khaak and Xenon--insanity). I've some across as many as 10 clusters in a single area, with carriers, corvettes and destroyers. A bit m...

I haven't touched the X3 install. It's just as it normally is after install/update/Bonus Pack. XTM, on the other hand is highly modified (not unpacked, I just made new cat/dat files). But I've made several versions for testing purposes. I'm pretty familiar with every file in the mod by now. All of t...

Ah, the command line apps in the Tools folder. I do have the PM installed, just don't use it.

Thanks for the reply. As far as anything additional, my first thought was that there was something amiss with the map itself. After dumping the XTM maps and using the standard X3 map, I still found myself crashing at the gates. Logic says it isn't the map... for what it's worth. I haven't given up y...

I have the same problem as eAT LeAd. Vanilla plays without a hitch. XTM does not. Fully 25% or more of the sectors are not available to me due to the same crash-on-enter problem. They tend to change from one game to the next, but will remain unavailable for the run of a given game. Otherwise, the ga...

Ah yes, the multiple HK entries has happened to me as well. I think I have 3 now. No crashes though.

I doesn't work "OK", it works perfectly.

Thanks for the fix, this is a very useful addition.

A little info: Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_qfe.070227-2300) System Manufacturer: HP-Pavilion System Model: RY875AA-ABA a6042n BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs)...

This has been the most consistent type of crash for me. The difference being, it locks up my system so hard I have to reboot to free it. Mods or no mods, updated with the 1.0->2.5, no matter, the crash is always the same. It's considerably more rare lately, but does still happen on occasion. Nothing...